by polity.lk | Jun 13, 2021 | Review
Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka. Mythri Jegathesan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 288 pp Reviewed by Nadia Augustyniak As anthropology continues to grapple with the colonial, racialised, and exploitative undercurrents of...
by polity.lk | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
‘A Journey Through Memories’ Jayadeva Uyangoda Polity Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 74-77 (Download PDF) Jayadeva Uyangoda reflects on Sasanka Perera’s Violence and the Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness, in terms of memorialization in...
by polity.lk | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Capital Accumulation in the Periphery: Notes from an Interview with a Nawalapitiya Businessman Mark Schubert Polity Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 70-73 (Download PDF) The Field Diary section consists of a conversation with a mudalali who Mark Schubert encountered in...
by polity.lk | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Neoliberal Turn in Sri Lanka: Global Financial Flows and Construction After 1977 Ahilan Kadirgamar Polity Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 8-13 (Download PDF) Ahilan Kadirgarmar’s argument against analyzing the 1977 reforms as a response to a mere “domestic economic crisis...
by polity.lk | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Sceptical View on the Open Economy : An Interview with SB De Silva Polity Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 66-69 (Download PDF) This interview is with Prof. SB De Silva, economist and author of The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. De Silva emphasizes the importance of...
